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Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Eldaroth@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you have experience running their services on a Lenovo ThinkCentre, specifically a Lenovo ThinkCentre M70Q Gen1? From what I read they can be quite efficient when it comes to idle power draw.

I have the chance to buy a refurbished one for approx. €380, coming with a i5-10400T, 16 GB RAM and a 256 GB NVMe SSD. Do you guys think the price sounds fair?

I am mainly looking to expand my Proxmox single host setup comprising of an Intel N150 mini PC with a second node as backup. Maybe down the line if I can get my hands on another affordable mini PC I might dabble in setting up a Kubernetes cluster. But that's a project for another day 😄

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[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where the heck did you get them 25 bucks a piece?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Government surplus auction. Had to get power supplies and SSDs for them separately but still less expensive than what most used ones go for elsewhere.

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Good on you!

[–] Eldaroth@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nice, great deal you got there! Would love to stumble upon a similar offering, would instantly build a Kubernetes cluster with them. Probably only to find out that it is too much of a hassle to run my homelab stuff in Kubernetes instead of Podman 😂

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Regarding deals:
If you are in Germany: Zoll-Auktionen does sell goverment surplus/decommissioned gear and also from seizes by customs.

Sometimes there are decent offerings there

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I did Docker swarm on an older cluster of thin clients I had ~10 years ago but even that was overkill. I've avoided Kubernetes for the same reason.